ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy: Recent submissions
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Lebensmittelhandel und Konsumtrends in China
(1999-05)Das Ziel dieser Studie besteht darin, durch Beschreibung der Strukturen und Trends im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel Chinas potentiellen Investoren und Exporteuren praktische Informationen bereitzustellen. Diese beschreibende ... -
Governance and economic performance: A survey
(1999-04)This paper presents a framework for analyzing the determinants and effects of public governance and a survey of recent theoretical and empirical studies pertaining to developing and transition countries. It explains how ... -
Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien in Entwicklungsländern: Trends und Potentiale
(1999-01)Since the mid 80s information and communication technologies (ICT) played an ever increasing role within the developed world. Industrialised and newly industrialising economies make big financial and organisational efforts ... -
Towards enhancing the role of microfinance for safety nets of the poor
(1999-10)Many of the poor borrow, more save, and most of them demand insurance products or related substitutes. However, most of these financial products, especially those catering towards the need for consumption stabilization are ... -
The international debate and economic consequences of eco-labeling
(1999-09)In this paper we analyze the effectiveness of eco-labels in reducing the supply of eco-unfriendly products. We focus on the situation where a labeled product is viewed by consumers as a private good and develop a theoretical ... -
Die Bedeutung von Telekommunikationsdiensten für wirtschaftliches Wachstum
(1999-09)The availability of telecommunications services is a necessary, though insufficient prerequisite for economic growth. In combination with transport, education, functioning financial markets, electricity, etc., telecommunications ... -
Spending on conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: How much and how efficient?
(1999-09)With growing awareness of the dangers of an irreversible loss of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA), there has been a major effort devoted to collecting and conserving plant genetic resources. The ... -
Information technology and exports: A case study of Indian garments manufacturing enterprises
(1999-08)This study identifies and analyses the factors that influence the export performance of Indian garments manufacturing firms. The data come from a sample of seventy-four firms located in Okhla. The results show that intensity ... -
Bad banking in Thailand?: An empirical analysis of macro indicators
(1999-08)It appears to be common wisdom that the basic cause of Thailand's crisis is its extraordinarily weak financial institutions. The paper questions this proposition from an empirical viewpoint. It is well established that the ... -
Legal reforms in China
(1999-08)Even though China has no rule of law tradition, it has been making rapid progress – since 1978 when the policy of opening-up was adopted – in setting up a legal system that is supportive of a market economy. This paper ... -
Nutrition improvement projects in Tanzania: Appropriate choice of institutions matters
(1999-08)Nutrition Improvement Projects (NIPs) are sets of planned activities specifically undertaken as interventions to reduce malnutrition and its associated problems in the communities. The study focused on five NIPs of varying ... -
Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy
(1999-08)When productivity is fostered by an individual’s own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. A strictly positive probability of migration to ... -
Assessing desertification and water harvesting in the Middle East and North Africa: Policy implications
(1999-07)This study examines four sets of questions:<br /> • What is desertification, and how can its impact on productivity be monitored?<br /> • How extensive is the desertification problem in the MENA region now, and how has it ... -
On a variation in the economic performance of migrants by their home country's wage
(2000-10)While the economic performance of migrants in the receiving country undoubtedly depends on qualifications, it is also affected by inclinations. Given the probability of return migration, we establish a behavioral link ... -
Desertification: Concept, causes and amelioration
(2000-10)Desertification is a condition of human-induced land degradation that occurs in arid, semiarid and dry sub-humid regions (precipitation/potential evapotranspiration or P/ETP 0.05 to 0.65) and leads to a persistent decline ... -
The incidence of child labour in Africa with empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia
(2000-10)There has been a growing interest in the subject of child labour in Africa in recent years among academics, professionals and the media primarily for two reasons: Firstly, because the number of children affected is growing, ... -
On the economics of volunteering
(2000-08)The past decade has witnessed a surge in private, volunteer activity across the globe, generating an optimistic belief in the potential of “civil society” in “filling” the niches where both the state and markets have failed. ... -
Institutional reform of economic legislation in Egypt
(2000-08)The relationship between institutional and economic reform has dominated the field of development research since the 1990s. However, there is unclarity on the significance of reform of institutions of legislation and ... -
Economic liberalisation and employment in South Asia
(2000-08)The main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of economic liberalisation on employment and labour incomes in South Asia. Specifically, it examines the impact on employment growth (total, agriculture, industry), ... -
Could tighter prudential regulation have saved Thailand's banks?
(2000-07)The improvement of prudential regulation in the crisis-ridden Asian countries is suggested by international organizations as a major lesson to be implemented. The effect from tighter regulation can be estimated by simulating ...
